Author Bios

Shannan Stoll is a senior editor at YES! Magazine. She covers environmental justice and Native rights issues.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and architect of the nonviolent civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was among the twentieth century's most influential figures. One of the greatest …

April Marie Lavoie is a Health Sciences Adjunct Faculty member at Bristol Community College for almost eight years and a doctoral student in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at …

Christy Thornton is a co-host on the WBAI Morning Show on 99.5FM in New York. She is earning a doctorate in Latin American history at New York University and …

Chuck Mertz has hosted ‘This is Hell!’ since 1996. Before that he worked selling Christmas decorations, counting and etching bushings, delivering newspapers, stocking shelves and mopping floors, making gyros, …

Rachel Kanakaole is the Chapter Head of the San Bernardino Valley Community College chapter of the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network and one of the New Chapters Coordinator for …

Heidi R. Lewis is Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College.  Her teaching and research focus on feminism, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity (black culture especially), Critical Race …

Nejm Benessaiah is a doctoral candidate in anthropology, specializing in power, religion and ecology in the North African region.